Maria (2025) · Blondie

162 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 29-47 and 49-54, and 7 more places -- 76.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MARIA (2025) · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 10 sections: 145 keep time, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-138.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBIGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maria (2025)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Maria (2025) hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Blondie drum parts

EVERY BLONDIE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →